zero grade

linguistics

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In Caucasian languages: Proto-Kartvelian
…or without a vowel, called zero grade. (An asterisk [*] indicates that the following form is not attested but has been reconstructed as a hypothetical ancestral form.) In a sequence of word elements (called morphemes) only one element may occur in full grade, the others being in either zero or…
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